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Donald Trump stares blankly ahead while sitting in the Oval Office

Think Trump’s Unpopular Now? Just Wait.

100 days into his second term, the president’s approval numbers are historically bad. There’s good reason to believe they’re only going to get worse from here.

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JD Vance struts

Claire Potter, Neil J. Young

JD Vance Likes “Normal Gays.” Should We Count That as a Win?

The pursuit of being seen as “normal” has served the LGBTQ movement well. But is there such a thing as too normal?

Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office.

The Trumpian Plot to Take Over the Federal Courts

The conservative legal movement’s latest broadside against the judiciary is likely to fail, but it illuminates how far they’re willing to go to dismantle the rule of law.